Updated: February, 2022
This repository presents a summary of landcover (LC) classification for Indian cities. The raw data is available from European Space Agency (ESA)’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI) program, which delivers a new time series of 24 consistent classification maps at 300 m spatial resolution on an annual basis for 1992-2020. In the animations (below) for Ahmedabad, Delhi, Durgapur, and Bengaluru, 24 classes were clubbed into 5 categories for simplification. Global database can be viewed here and downloaded here.
For all the cities under NCAP, data is extracted for a box of 0.4 x 0.4 degrees (~40km x 40km) with the city’s GIS centroid in the middle, to demonstrate the change in the major landcover classifications. This data acts as a proxy for (a) the rate of urbanization (b) the growing demand for construction material and (c) the growing demand for commercial and residential amenities.
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The table below presents landcover animation of 1992-2020 for 132 non-attainment cities. To view the animation, click on the link and to save the animation, right click and save.
